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Live Source
A real‑time feed routed into the engine — camera, deck, or another now2media module.
- Cropenabled
- Bordercolour · size · radius · alpha
- Shadowcolour · alpha · offset X/Y
- Radiusrounded corners
ON AIR
COMP 01 · FRAME 119/150
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KEY · FILL · ALPHA
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DECKLINK · NDI · VTP
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KEYFRAME TIMELINE
Graphics that hit on the frame.
now2gfx is a real‑time broadcast graphics engine. Pull in live sources, images, image sequences or video. Crop, border, shadow and radius every item. Animate anything with a keyframe timeline. Output key and fill with alpha over DeckLink, NDI or VTP.
// SUITE 02 — the composition
Layers in. Frames on time.
Layers in. Frames on time.
Key and fill out.
now2gfx gives every item its own transform stack, its own styling and its own animation track. Stack as many sequences as the show needs — they composite layer by layer onto the same programme output.
now2gfx · 0.1.0
ON AIR
alpha check
checkerboard = transparent
dynamic text bank
rows × columns
// SUITE 03 — layer compositing
As many sequences as the show needs. One programme out.
Each sequence keeps its own independent layer stack and there is no layer ceiling — stack a sponsor wall, a score bug, a full‑screen take and a crawl side by side. now2gfx composites them in order and hands a single keyed output to the switcher.
∞
No layer limit
add sequence → stack it on top
no limit
PROGRAMME OUT
1080i50 · 4:2:2 10b
LIVE
BREAKING · Late equaliser ruled out · SCTE‑35 cue armed from the schedule · Ad break in 04:12 · Full replay package uploading ·
STUDIO
LIVE BROADCAST
22:36:57
START IN
00:23:03
SHOWFERMEDIA
FILL · RGBA out · alpha preserved
5 of ∞ sequences · 9 items · 0 dropped frames
Hover a sequence to isolate it on the programme out. Toggle FILL / KEY / ALPHA to see exactly what leaves the card.
// SUITE 03 — media sources
Four ways in.
Four ways in.
One styling stack.
Whatever comes in, it lands in the same inspector — crop, border, shadow and radius are available on every source type, so a live feed and a still PNG are styled the same way.
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Image
A still frame — logo, sponsor board, sponsor slates, team crests.
- Cropenabled
- Bordercolour · size · radius · alpha
- Shadowcolour · alpha · offset X/Y
- Radiusrounded corners
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Image Sequence
A numbered folder of frames played back at the composition frame rate.
- Cropenabled
- Bordercolour · size · radius · alpha
- Shadowcolour · alpha · offset X/Y
- Radiusrounded corners
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Video
A video file — stings, wipes, replay slates, sponsor reels.
- Cropenabled
- Bordercolour · size · radius · alpha
- Shadowcolour · alpha · offset X/Y
- Radiusrounded corners
// SUITE 04 — item library
Eight primitives.
Eight primitives.
Infinite combinations.
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Box
Solid or gradient panel — the base plate for any lower third or score bug.
02
Aa
Text
Any point size, weight, colour, tracking and outline. Supports {dynamicText}.
03
12:45:03
Clock
Countdown or count‑up. Set the start time and it runs on air.
04
◄ NEWS HEADLINE TICKER RUNNING
Crawl
Scrolling single line. Feed it from an XML or RSS source.
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Ticker
Multi‑item strip — scores, standings, a rolling list of names or numbers.
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Circle
Ring, disc or arc. Radius, thickness and stroke colour adjustable.
07
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Optical Flare
Anamorphic streak and bloom for transitions and highlights.
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7▼
Up/Down Count
Counter with animated increment and decrement. Ideal for cards, corners, reds.
// SUITE 05 — keyframe timeline
Every property animates.
Every property animates.
Not just these.
Every property an item exposes gets its own keyframe track — and the list is not a fixed set. It follows the item: a Text track animates size, tracking, colour and outline; a Border animates colour, size and radius; a Shadow animates colour, alpha and its X/Y offset; an Image animates crop as well as transform. Whatever the inspector shows, the timeline can keyframe. Drop keyframes at any frame and the item interpolates across them. Duration is set in seconds or in total frames.
PROGRAMME OUT
1080i50 · 4:2:2 10b
LIVE
BREAKING · Late equaliser ruled out · SCTE‑35 cue armed from the schedule · Ad break in 04:12 · Full replay package uploading ·
STUDIO SOURCE
LIVE BROADCAST
✦
22:36:57
START IN
00:22:05
SHOWFERMEDIA
FILL · RGBA out · alpha preserved
5 of ∞ sequences · 9 items · 0 dropped frames
0/ 150 f
timeline
SUPPORTED KEYFRAME TRACKS
46 animatable property types. The timeline does not expose a fixed list — it builds one track per property the selected item actually has. Select an item, and exactly its properties become tracks.
Transform & opacity
every item · 8 tracksPosition XPosition YWidthHeightAlphaRotationAnchor XAnchor Y
Text · Crawl · Clock · Count · Ticker
29 tracksBackground ColorcolourGradient Stop 2colourBackground AlphavalueBG Corner RadiusvalueBG Shadow Offset XvalueBG Shadow Offset YvalueBG Shadow AlphavalueBG Shadow ColorcolourBox Border ColorcolourBox Border AlphavalueBox Border WidthvalueFont SizevalueText ColorcolourLetter SpacingvaluePaddingvalueText Shadow Offset XvalueText Shadow Offset YvalueText Shadow AlphavalueText Shadow ColorcolourText Outline ColorcolourText Outline WidthvalueCrawl SpeedvalueCrawl Sep PaddingvalueTicker Move Durationvalue
Colour tracks interpolate per channel — R, G, B and alpha each blend across the two keyframes, so a title can cross‑fade from one brand colour to another.
Box · Circle
19 tracksBackground ColorcolourGradient Stop 2colourBackground AlphavalueBG Corner RadiusvalueBG Shadow Offset XvalueBG Shadow Offset YvalueBG Shadow AlphavalueBG Shadow ColorcolourBox Border ColorcolourBox Border AlphavalueBox Border Widthvalue
Box and Circle map their background to fill colour rather than the text background track — same animation engine, different property behind it.
Image · Video · ImageSeq · Live Source
20 tracksBorder ColorcolourBorder AlphavalueBorder WidthvalueRadiusvalueBG Shadow Offset XvalueBG Shadow Offset YvalueShadow AlphavalueShadow ColorcolourCrop LeftvalueCrop TopvalueCrop RightvalueCrop Bottomvalue
Crop is edge based in pixels — a keyframed crop left sweeps a push‑in without touching the transform tracks.
Optical Flare
21 tracksLength (px)valueWing Strength (px)valueCenter HotspotvalueCenter Stretch (x)valueBrightnessvalueRotation SpeedvalueAngle (1–12)valueHorizontal FadevalueVertical FadevalueCrop LeftvalueCrop TopvalueCrop RightvalueCrop Bottomvalue
Flare is the most animatable item in the library — thirteen dedicated parameters on top of the shared transform set, including rotation speed and independent horizontal / vertical fade.
// TIMELINE MARKERS
Four markers control the item's life.
IN
Entry
Where the item begins. Everything before this frame is blank.
LOOP
Loop start
Marks the beginning of a repeating cycle.
STOP
Loop end
Where the loop turns back. With a LOOP marker the item cycles between LOOP and STOP, forever — it never waits for OUT.
OUT
Exit starts
Where the exit animation begins. Pressing STOP jumps here and plays the item out to its last keyframe.
With a LOOP marker the item plays IN → LOOP, then cycles LOOP → STOP forever. The playhead never waits for OUT. Pressing STOP jumps to OUT, plays the exit animation and halts on the last keyframe.
// SUITE 06 — dynamic text & content sources
Change what is on air
Change what is on air
without touching the composition.
Two separate mechanisms. Dynamic text drives the values inside a graphic from a bank you edit live. Content sources fill Crawl and Ticker from a file or a feed. In both cases the item on screen updates on its own — nobody opens the composition mid‑show.
Dynamic Text Bank
add / remove / clear lines
Dynamic text bank
The bank is a grid. Columns are yours to name —
home, homescore, guest,
guestscore in the example. Each row is a line: one complete
set of values, for one match, one player or one slot in the rundown.
01
Build the grid
Add a column for every field your graphic needs, then add lines — one per match, per player, per sponsor slot.
02
Pick the live line
The radio column marks which line is currently on air. Switch it and every bound graphic follows at once.
03
Bind a column in the graphic
A Text, Clock or Count item references a column by name and renders whatever that cell holds right now.
04
Edit the cell, not the composition
Type in the bank and the item re‑renders instantly. Nothing moves, no modal steals focus mid‑show.
05
Drive it remotely
Every cell can be pushed from outside through now2sdk — a score feed, OCR, or a rundown system.
Crawl & ticker content source
Crawl and Ticker items pull their lines from somewhere outside the app. Choose the source, point it at a file or a feed, pick the tags you want, and the grid fills itself.
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Pick a source mode
Manual, a plain .txt file, or XML / URL. The mode decides where the lines come from.
02
Point at the feed
Paste a URL such as an RSS endpoint, or browse to a local file.
03
Get Tags
now2gfx fetches the document and lists every tag it finds — rss, channel, title, link, description, and whatever else the feed carries.
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Tick the tags you want
Select one or several and add them to the grid as columns.
05
Reorder the lines
Move rows up and down, remove single lines or clear the grid. The crawl plays them in this order.
Crawl & Ticker Content Source
XML / URL · get tags · grid
// SUITE 07 — key & fill output
Key the way your switcher wants it.
now2gfx outputs fill and key with a real alpha channel over DeckLink, NDI and VTP — and in Disable mode you can take the key from one card and the fill from another.
EXTERNAL
External key
now2gfx emits a dedicated key signal alongside the fill. The switcher or downstream device does the keying.
INTERNAL
Internal key
now2gfx keys the composition itself and outputs a clean keyed pair, ready to cut straight to air.
DISABLE
Disable keying
Alpha is carried as a separate channel. Take the key from one graphics card and the fill from a second — two cards, one composition.
CARD A → key
CARD B → fill
DELIVERY
- DeckLinkSDI key + fill, alpha channel preserved
- NDIkeyed or fill+alpha stream
- VTPalpha channel over VisionTree Protocol
